Kennedy C Chinyowa
Biographic Data
| ID | 295022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kennedy C Chinyowa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kennedy C |
| FAMILY NAME | Chinyowa |
| SIGNATURE | CHINYOWA K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The agentive power of play in theatre for young people
Popular arts are not only accessible to most people, but their stylistic features are also a crucial scholarly site of attention. Liz Gunner [1990. “Introduction: Forms of Popular Culture and the Struggle for Space.” Journal of Southern African Studies 16 (2): 199–206] regards African popular art as an empowering agency that can give people a new sense of control over their own lives. Through processes of improvisation, enactment and dialogue, su…
Revisiting Intellectual Property Rights in African Contexts
From his in-depth study on cultural industries in Ghana and Burkina Faso, Christiaan De Beukelaer (2012 De Beukelaer, Christiaan. 2012. Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice. Riksbankens: European Cultural Foundation. [Google Scholar]) observed that the surge in digital piracy, normally regarded as a violation of intellectual property rights, had actually created new possibilities for increased distribution and …
Exploring the Transformative Power of Play in African Children's Games
The transformative power of indigenous African children's games can be demonstrated by how they were framed by the aesthetics of play such as imitation, imagination, make-believe, repetition, spontaneity, and improvisation. Such games could be regarded as 'rites of passage' for children's initiation into adulthood as they occupied a crucial phase in the process of growing up. Using the illustrative paradigm of indigenous children's games from the…
Subverting ableist discourses as an exercise in precarity
This article focuses on how ableist discourses and practices seek to ‘normalize’ the disabled body which is deemed to be ‘deviant’. This leads to acts of normalization that expose disabled bodies to precarity, conceived here as the lived experience of marginalization, ostracism and vulnerability. Using the case study of a disability theatre project that was carried out at the University of Zimbabwe and which focused on the experiences of albinism…
Participation as ‘repressive myth’
In both contemporary educational and development discourse, the idea of participation is increasingly being regarded as falsely leading to an erroneous interpretation of the social construction of reality by dominant groups with the people's transformation. The strategies being deployed in the name of participation such as dialogue, giving voice, conscientisation and empowerment are deemed to create the illusion of liberation while they reinforce…
A Poetic of Contradictions?. HIV/Aids Interventions at the Crossroads of Localization and Globalization
Exploring Conflict-Management Strategies through Applied Drama. A Wits University Case Study
Building Critical Citizenship through Syncretic Theatre
Community-based theatre in Zimbabwe has played a limited, if not passive, role in promoting active citizenship among its audiences. More often than not, crucial decisions affecting target communities have been made from outside, making it appear as if externally driven interventions are being imposed upon them. The overriding tendency has been that of ‘taking theatre to the people’ rather than ‘making theatre with the people’. The former approach…
Revisiting monitoring and evaluation strategies for applied drama and theatre practice in African contexts
Most of the applied drama and theatre projects being carried out in African contexts tend to be one-off events with limited follow-up in terms of building the capacity of target communities and organising them for action. Besides bringing people together for workshops, performances and post-performance discussions, such projects simply pass by with little or no impact. The few that have been given attention remain trapped within a modernising par…
From Oral Literature to Performance Analysis
Emerging paradigms for applied drama and theatre practice in African contexts
The prevailing tendency in applied drama and theatre research and practice in African contexts has been for both critics and practitioners to apply the Freirian educational paradigm of ‘codification’ and ‘decodification’ in the interpretation of their work. Guarav Desai asserts that most of the theoretical premises of applied theatre workers in Africa take their origins from the Freirian educational pedagogy. It therefore follows that an understa…
Playing against Violence
African popular theatre has emerged as an alternative strategy through which the oppressed can discard the culture of silence and assert their desire for peace, justice and freedom. Taking cognisance of the belief that violence only begets violence, such theatre employs meta-communicative devices, like play, as non-violent means of protest against forces that have militated against the people's welfare. This article uses the case study of a popul…
Helping them to help themselves
An outstanding problem that has haunted most development workers in Africa has been how to effectively engage rural communities who often have no access to modern technological media like newspapers, radio, television, video and film. The tendency has been for development workers to resort to top-down or blueprint development approaches that usually undermine the very purpose for which they were intended. Instead of inspiring community-driven act…
Towards an Aesthetic Theory for African Popular Theatre
From a “Puny Domesticity” to Topical Commitment. Trends in the Development of Shona Written Drama Since 1968
The agentive power of play in theatre for young people
Popular arts are not only accessible to most people, but their stylistic features are also a crucial scholarly site of attention. Liz Gunner [1990. “Introduction: Forms of Popular Culture and the Struggle for Space.” Journal of Southern African Studies 16 (2): 199–206] regards African popular art as an empowering agency that can give people a new sense of control over their own lives. Through processes of improvisation, enactment and dialogue, su…
From Oral Literature to Performance Analysis
Helping them to help themselves
An outstanding problem that has haunted most development workers in Africa has been how to effectively engage rural communities who often have no access to modern technological media like newspapers, radio, television, video and film. The tendency has been for development workers to resort to top-down or blueprint development approaches that usually undermine the very purpose for which they were intended. Instead of inspiring community-driven act…
Towards an Aesthetic Theory for African Popular Theatre
From a “Puny Domesticity” to Topical Commitment. Trends in the Development of Shona Written Drama Since 1968
Emerging paradigms for applied drama and theatre practice in African contexts
The prevailing tendency in applied drama and theatre research and practice in African contexts has been for both critics and practitioners to apply the Freirian educational paradigm of ‘codification’ and ‘decodification’ in the interpretation of their work. Guarav Desai asserts that most of the theoretical premises of applied theatre workers in Africa take their origins from the Freirian educational pedagogy. It therefore follows that an understa…
Playing against Violence
African popular theatre has emerged as an alternative strategy through which the oppressed can discard the culture of silence and assert their desire for peace, justice and freedom. Taking cognisance of the belief that violence only begets violence, such theatre employs meta-communicative devices, like play, as non-violent means of protest against forces that have militated against the people's welfare. This article uses the case study of a popul…
Revisiting monitoring and evaluation strategies for applied drama and theatre practice in African contexts
Most of the applied drama and theatre projects being carried out in African contexts tend to be one-off events with limited follow-up in terms of building the capacity of target communities and organising them for action. Besides bringing people together for workshops, performances and post-performance discussions, such projects simply pass by with little or no impact. The few that have been given attention remain trapped within a modernising par…
From Oral Literature to Performance Analysis
Building Critical Citizenship through Syncretic Theatre
Community-based theatre in Zimbabwe has played a limited, if not passive, role in promoting active citizenship among its audiences. More often than not, crucial decisions affecting target communities have been made from outside, making it appear as if externally driven interventions are being imposed upon them. The overriding tendency has been that of ‘taking theatre to the people’ rather than ‘making theatre with the people’. The former approach…
A Poetic of Contradictions?. HIV/Aids Interventions at the Crossroads of Localization and Globalization
Exploring Conflict-Management Strategies through Applied Drama. A Wits University Case Study
Participation as ‘repressive myth’
In both contemporary educational and development discourse, the idea of participation is increasingly being regarded as falsely leading to an erroneous interpretation of the social construction of reality by dominant groups with the people's transformation. The strategies being deployed in the name of participation such as dialogue, giving voice, conscientisation and empowerment are deemed to create the illusion of liberation while they reinforce…
Subverting ableist discourses as an exercise in precarity
This article focuses on how ableist discourses and practices seek to ‘normalize’ the disabled body which is deemed to be ‘deviant’. This leads to acts of normalization that expose disabled bodies to precarity, conceived here as the lived experience of marginalization, ostracism and vulnerability. Using the case study of a disability theatre project that was carried out at the University of Zimbabwe and which focused on the experiences of albinism…
Revisiting Intellectual Property Rights in African Contexts
From his in-depth study on cultural industries in Ghana and Burkina Faso, Christiaan De Beukelaer (2012 De Beukelaer, Christiaan. 2012. Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice. Riksbankens: European Cultural Foundation. [Google Scholar]) observed that the surge in digital piracy, normally regarded as a violation of intellectual property rights, had actually created new possibilities for increased distribution and …
Exploring the Transformative Power of Play in African Children's Games
The transformative power of indigenous African children's games can be demonstrated by how they were framed by the aesthetics of play such as imitation, imagination, make-believe, repetition, spontaneity, and improvisation. Such games could be regarded as 'rites of passage' for children's initiation into adulthood as they occupied a crucial phase in the process of growing up. Using the illustrative paradigm of indigenous children's games from the…
The agentive power of play in theatre for young people
Popular arts are not only accessible to most people, but their stylistic features are also a crucial scholarly site of attention. Liz Gunner [1990. “Introduction: Forms of Popular Culture and the Struggle for Space.” Journal of Southern African Studies 16 (2): 199–206] regards African popular art as an empowering agency that can give people a new sense of control over their own lives. Through processes of improvisation, enactment and dialogue, su…
Sociology (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Drama (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)